Health
How the Western Cape is responding to Covid-19
We had an advantage over countries in the North “because we had the opportunity to observe them, the trajectory of their epidemic, their mistakes”
By Liezl Human
News | 16 April 2020
Covid-19: Informal settlement without water despite Durban mayor’s promise
In January the City demolished the only toilet in Mandeni
Brief | 16 April 2020
Covid-19: Patients turned away as PE clinic runs out of water
Ward councillor blames decaying municipal infrastructure for burst water pipe
Brief | 15 April 2020
Covid-19: Meet the entrepeneurs who are making masks
Wearing masks may help reduce the spread of the epidemic, if other social distancing measures are also implemented
By Thamsanqa Mbovane and Zimbili Vilakazi
News | 15 April 2020
Covid-19: KZN nurses stranded in Western Cape
Nurses told by agencies that they can’t be booked because they are not covered should they contract coronavirus at work
Brief | 14 April 2020
Tim Noakes interview is dangerously misleading
And it contains elementary errors
Science | 13 April 2020
Covid-19: Judge scolds union for “untenable” case against Minister of Health
“Under circumstances of national disaster, everyone is called upon, for the good of society as a whole, to co-operate in bringing the pandemic under control.”
News | 11 April 2020
Patients turned away from PE clinic after nurse contracts Covid-19
Staff say they will return to work when they get their test results
News | 10 April 2020
Covid-19: Come on South Africa, let’s make masks
Home-made masks can help protect us from the virus
By Heather Zar
Science | 10 April 2020